Objects were falling everywhere. The floor was shaking and gave no respite. And in the middle of that chaos, a boy didn’t hesitate for even a second: he threw himself over his baby sister and completely covered her with his own body.
The video, which has already gone viral on social media, shows how the little boy —barely about 8 years old, according to several users’ estimates— became a human shield in a matter of seconds. Without thinking. Without anyone asking him to. He just acted.
Stories like this are repeated in different countries every time the earth shakes: older siblings who, out of pure instinct, put the lives of the little ones before their own. And although the earthquake has already passed, the image of that boy protecting his sister with his arms remained etched in the minds of those who saw it.
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